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Spray water on compressor to raise efficiency? BoyntonStu 09-26-2007
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Posted by Joseph Meehan on September 27, 2007, 12:49 pm


> Large buildings use water to remove the heat from theur ac condensers.
>
> What about a recirculating fountain to spay the coils in my ac
> condenser for 90+ temp days.
>
> How much 'gain' in efficiency would result?
>


There have been a number of commercial kits to do this. The problem is,
even with soft water, they scale up the evaporators fast and that reduces
the efficiency. Don't bother.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia 's Muire duit




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Posted by BoyntonStu on September 27, 2007, 1:35 pm
wrote:
>
>
> > Large buildings use water to remove the heat from theur ac condensers.
>
> > What about a recirculating fountain to spay the coils in my ac
> > condenser for 90+ temp days.
>
> > How much 'gain' in efficiency would result?
>
> There have been a number of commercial kits to do this. The problem is,
> even with soft water, they scale up the evaporators fast and that reduces
> the efficiency. Don't bother.
>
> --
> Joseph Meehan
>
> Dia 's Muire duit

A real hack would be to cut the condenser apart, and place the coils
in a 'bathtub' in the ground, etc


Posted by willshak on September 27, 2007, 1:46 pm
on 9/27/2007 1:35 PM BoyntonStu said the following:
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Large buildings use water to remove the heat from theur ac condensers.
>>>
>>> What about a recirculating fountain to spay the coils in my ac
>>> condenser for 90+ temp days.
>>>
>>> How much 'gain' in efficiency would result?
>>>
>> There have been a number of commercial kits to do this. The problem is,
>> even with soft water, they scale up the evaporators fast and that reduces
>> the efficiency. Don't bother.
>>
>> --
>> Joseph Meehan
>>
>> Dia 's Muire duit
>>
>
> A real hack would be to cut the condenser apart, and place the coils
> in a 'bathtub' in the ground, etc
>
>

How about running an AC duct from the AC to the condenser? :-)

--

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
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